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Avant-Garde 1920s Costumes Reemerge, Revealing Their Makers’ Tragic Story

by Allison Meier October 29, 2015October 1, 2021

In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights.

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Illustrated Guides to Camping Like an Early-20th-Century American

by Allison Meier August 10, 2015August 13, 2015

The Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine Library in East Harlem has a trove of printed materials connected to camping and outdoor recreation in the early 1900s.

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Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized

by Allison Meier August 7, 2015August 14, 2015

The 17th-century Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu) is so fragile that until digitization no one was allowed to open it.

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MoMA Is Archiving Its Exhibition Websites Before They Expire

by Allison Meier June 10, 2015June 11, 2015

Soon over 200 exhibition websites for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), going back to its first web experiments in 1995, will be totally archived, from their images to their code.

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New York’s Oldest Museums: Where Are They Now?

by Allison Meier June 1, 2015September 9, 2021

Old NYC, a project by software engineer Dan Vanderkam, launched last month with thousands of images from the New York Public Library mapped across the five boroughs.

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Broadsides for Broadband: Digitizing the People’s Literature of the 17th Century

by Allison Meier May 14, 2015May 13, 2015

Considered the “people’s literature” in the 17th century, broadside ballads were sold for a penny or halfpenny, their pairing of a comic or satiric song alongside a woodblock illustration making them popular bawdy amusement across classes.

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The Radical Art of Archiving Performance, as Practiced by Martha Wilson

by Alexis Clements April 8, 2015April 9, 2015

The day after I went to go see the Martha Wilson: Downtown and Performing Franklin Furnace exhibitions in New York City, a friend brought me to a lecture-performance by Carolee Schneemann at a raw gallery space in Tribeca run by Hunter College.

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In Readers’ Hands, Archives Find New Contexts

by Megan N. Liberty March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

Now more than ever archives are in a transition, one that offers an opportunity for new potential at a time when there’s nostalgia for old, dusty cardboard boxes.

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On the Brink of Extinction, an Indigenous Language Gets Its First Dictionary

by Allison Meier March 3, 2015March 4, 2015

Despite their important role in strengthening cultures and communities, languages are fragile things.

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Four Million Images from the World’s Endangered Archives

by Allison Meier February 23, 2015February 26, 2015

Despite the vast and growing resources available online, much of the world’s knowledge and history remains ephemeral and under threat of disappearance.

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Emma Goldman Papers Project Faces Uncertain Future

by Allison Meier January 30, 2015January 29, 2015

The 34-year-old Emma Goldman Papers Project is in limbo after losing its affiliation with UC Berkeley and running through its funding.

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British Library Says 6.5 Million Sounds Are in Jeopardy

by Allison Meier January 20, 2015January 23, 2015

Last week, the British Library launched a £40m ($60m) crowdfunding initiative to preserve its archive of over six million sound recordings.

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